COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Lubin, Eilhard (1565-1621)
Author:
Geelkercken, Nicolaes van
Date:
1618
Short Title:
6. Nova illustrissimi principatus Pomeraniae descriptio
Publisher:
Eilhard Lubin
Publisher Location:
Hamburg
Type:
Separate Map
Obj Height cm:
42
Obj Width cm:
54
Scale 1:
240,000
Note:
Large and impressive outline colored copperplate engraving map of Pomerania on 12 sheets, 42x54 or smaller, by Eilhard Lubin, Professor at the University of Rostock. In 1610 he was asked by Philipp II, the Duke of Pomerania to create a large scale map of the geography and history of the duchy. In 1612 map was completed, it was decorated with 49 town views, and coat of arms of the noble families. In 1618 the Dutch engraver Nicolas van Geelkercken, engraved the copperplates in Amsterdam, and a small number of sheets were printed. The plates disappeared in the thirty years war and were rediscovered by the historian Johann Carl Conard Oelrichs in 1758. The map shows 49 town views on the border, the family tree of the house of Griffins, dukes of Pomerania, with 157 names and small portraits, a small family tree of the house of Rugen, 5 large portraits of living dukes of different parts of Pomerania, and on the lower middle left sheet probably the portrait of Lubin himself. The map shows towns and villages, landmarks, churches, forest, rivers and mountains. Relief is shown pictorially. Lubin's Pomerania remained the most accurate map of the region from its inception in 1618 until the Prussian topographical survey of the eighteenth century. The map is extraordinary in the way that it combines the "mapping" of the history of the ruling families with the mapping of the topography of Pomerania.
Country:
Germany
Country:
Poland
Region:
Pomerania (Germany and Poland)
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Pictorial map
Full Title:
Nova illustrissimi principatus Pomeraniae descriptio cum adjuncta Principum genealogia et Principum veris et potiorum Urbium imaginibus et Nobilium insignibus. N. Geilkerckius sculpsit. [With] Pomeraniae et rerum in ea memorabilium brevis descriptio E. Lubini.
List No:
11511.006
Page No:
6
Series No:
6
Publication Author:
Lubin, Eilhard (1565-1621)
Publication Author:
Geelkercken, Nicolaes van
Pub Date:
1758
Pub Title:
Nova illustrissimi principatus Pomeraniae descriptio cum adjuncta Principum genealogia et Principum veris et potiorum Urbium imaginibus et Nobilium insignibus. N. Geilkerckius sculpsit. [With] Pomeraniae et rerum in ea memorabilium brevis descriptio E. Lubini.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
11511.000
Pub Type:
Separate Map
Pub Maps:
12
Pub Height cm:
125
Pub Width cm:
215
Image No:
11511006.jp2
Authors:
Lubin, Eilhard (1565-1621) ; Geelkercken, Nicolaes van
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6. Nova illustrissimi principatus Pomeraniae descriptio
